working out

1. 1.

   developing in intricate and painstaking detail

   Synonymselaboration

   Broaderdevelopment

Questions about working out

What does working out mean?

working out means "developing in intricate and painstaking detail".

What is another word for working out?

Close synonyms include elaboration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is working out a common word?

working out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.